to love is to have ancient wounds exposed to vicious winds and be caressed instead of burned

Think for youself but not because I said so!

‎"If there is no discipline, there is anarchy. Good citizenship demands attention to responsibilities as well as rights.

The outcome of insane parents is either a murderer or an intellectual.

The things that keep me awake at night are things like textures and instrumentation and plotting out what things are going to do and what the sounds are that I'm trying to capture.

Relying on another is an expression of attachment, not love, a manifestation of insecurity and suffering, not understanding the true nature of our lives.

He's (Feijao is) a different fighter than Anderson Silva so it doesn't matter that they train together. And I think I've improved a lot since I fought Anderson.

When I was a child of six or seven my father would show me the chapter in the prophet Isaiah where the name Immanuel is found; more than once he spoke to me of the faith he put in me.

Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author.

When everything seems to be going well and your dream is almost within your gasp, that is when you must be more alert than ever.